Fulton rolls to Class 2, District 2 team title

HOLTS SUMMIT — Holts Summit police launched an investigation Saturday after an explosive device was discovered inside a mailbox that morning. An elderly woman called Callaway Joint Communications around 10 a.m. after finding the device inside her mailbox located in the 200 block of Venus Street in Holts Summit, according to Sgt. Marc Haycook with the Holts Summit Police Department.

Authorities arrested 17 people today who are among 27 defendants indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly participating in a large-scale conspiracy to distribute drugs and promote prostitution in the Boone County area, said U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri Tammy Dickinson at a press conference Thursday.

North Callaway High School, Auxvasse Elementary put on temporary lockout

The suspect in an armed bank robbery in Wellsville was taken into custody in Callaway County on Thursday morning. Auxvasse Elementary School and North Callaway High School were both put on temporary lockout due to their proximity to the incident.

Just before jury selection was scheduled to start in St. Charles County on Tuesday, the Fulton woman charged with the robbery and beating of a Fulton woman abducted from the Walmart parking lot in 2012 pleaded guilty.

The Callaway County Sheriff's Office is looking for a man suspected of robbing the Kingdom City Post Office on Saturday morning.
CCSO Sergeant Jeff Harding stated that at approximately 9:45 a.m. on Saturday, a man stole an undisclosed amount of money from the Kingdom City Post Office on Old Highway 40.